Spider Silk Could be Used To Treat
Human Wounds Researchers have come up with a use for spider silk’s unusual mix of strength and elasticity: Creating artificial skin and wound dressings for helping heal wounds. The researchers say they have developed two types
of silk-based constructs: Nanofibrous matrices that serve as bioactive wound dressings and microporous sponges cultured with human skin cells to serve as artificial skin. Spider silk can also be used for other applications; Such as improving the quality of microphones in hearing aids to forming microcapsules for delivering anti-cancer vaccines.